+ Finance
Department
of Finance
201 Business Administration, 419-372-2520
Purpose
Finance is a discipline dealing with the allocation
of funds within an organization and the acquisition
of funds to meet its current and future needs. The finance
specialization is designed for students who are interested
in financial management as it relates to both financial
and non-financial firms. Areas of emphasis included
within the finance specialization are business financial
analysis and management, investment analysis and management,
financial markets and institutions management, risk
analysis and management, and personal financial planning.
Career opportunities associated with the finance specialization
include, but are not restricted to, the following: cash
management, credit management, financial analysis, capital
budgeting, investment analysis, securities analysis,
portfolio management, securities brokering, commercial
lending and loan management, retail bank management,
risk management, insurance company operations and management,
and personal financial planning and management.
BSBA
general degree requirements
Students
completing the finance specialization must complete
University,
general degree,
pre-professional
and professional
requirements for the BSBA degree, including admission
to the BSBA program.
Finance
specialization requirements (21-24 hours)
Finance specialization students take seven to eight
courses (21-24 credit hours) depending on whether they
choose the concentration in financial planning or not.
- Grade
of "C" or better in each prerequisite finance
course for all 400-level finance courses
- FIN
320, 330, 340, 350
- Three-four
courses from: FIN 410, 411, 412, 435, 445, 447, 455;
ACCT 321, 341, 422, 444, with at least one finance
course
Concentration
in financial planning
The concentration in financial planning is designed
to provide students with an academic and professional
level of education in the field of financial planning
and prepare them to advise individual investors on insurance,
investments, tax, retirement and estate planning. The
financial planning concentration requires students to
complete the following eight courses (24 credit hours):
FIN 320, 330, 340, 350, 411, 412; ACCT 341, 444.
Upon
successful completion of the concentration, students
will meet the educational requirements of the Certified
Financial Planner (CFP®) Board of Standards and
be eligible to sit for the CFP® certification examination,
offered several times each year by the CFP® board.
Successful completion of the CFP® exam, along with
meeting other CFP® Board Standards requirements,
is necessary to receive the CFP® designation.
